Slide buckle and strap attachment



July 2, 1929.

F. HIRSH SLIDE BUCKLE AND STRAP ATTACHMENT Filed Aug. l0, 1927 mmm-,X

ATTORNEY Patented July 2, 1929.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRED HIRSH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR T0 ADJUSTA COMPANY, 0F NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

SLIDE BUCKLE AND STRAP ATTACHMENT.

Application tiled August 10, 1927. Serial No. 211,897.

This invention relates to slide buckles, and the object thereof is both to improve the structure and thereby the functioning of the buckle itself and to provide a cheap and convenient means for detachably fixing thereto one end of a. strap.

To this end my improved buckle consists of a plate pierced to provide a plurality of transverse bars and intermediate slots, preferably four bars and three slots, in which the two outer bars have on their inner sides integral lips upset therefrom to a plane substantially perpendicular to the plane of the plate and notched on their edges to provide preferably blunt or rounded teeth and the intermediate bar or bars has a notch formed at each end in its outer edge. I thus obtain a buckle of minimum length and with slots of maximum width through which the strap is readily threaded and shifted back and forth and at the same time will be held without injury securely in any position to which it may be adjusted.

For detachably securing to the buckle one end of the strap, or of a separate section of strap, I fold over the end and secureit back to the strap by a line of stitches intermediate the line of fold and the end in manner to provide short anchorage sections on the opposite sides of the line of attachment. The strap end so finished can readily be attached to the buckle, as by being passed first forward through one of the outer slots and then back through the central slot, so that when the strap is drawn tight therein the two anchorage sections will bear against and cover the backs of the two intermediate bars. l

The invention will be understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a garment illustrating one application of my present improvements; Fig. 2 is a similar view oa sanitary belt, illustrating another application thereof; Fig. 3 is a view of the under or back side of the buckle; Fig. 4 is a face view of the buckle with strap ends adjustably secured therein; Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section of the buckle and straps shown in Fig. 4; Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the under side of a buckle and of a strap end with end anchorage loosely threaded therein; Fig. 7 is a view similar to Fig. 6 but showing a buckle of' slightly modified construction with the strap end anchored in position; and Fig. 8 is an edge view of a strap end illustrating a slight modification of the anchorage` therefor.

As illustrated, 10 indicates the slide buckle, 11 11 indicate the inturned toothed lips which are formed on the inner sides of its two outer bars by upsetting portions of the plate cut out from the adjoining slots to a plane substantially perpendicular to the plane of the buckle, and 11 11 indicate the notches formed in the outer edge of the iutermediate bars at each of their ends.

The buckle may either be `used to adjustably secure together the two strap ends 12 and 13, such as the ends of the strap at the back of a vest, as illustrated in Figs. 4 and 5, where the inner strap end 12 is passed forward through the centralslot and back through an outer slot and the outer strap end is passed forwardly through the same outer slot and back through the other outer slot, or what may be designated as the inner strap end 12a, for example the front and back straps of a sanitary belt 14 as illustrated in Figs. 2 and 6, may be detachably fixed to the buckle by the anchorage formed by fold ing over the end of the strap and stitchingit back at 15 to provide the two anchorage sections 16 and 17, while the outer strap end will be adjustably secured therein in the same manner as the strap end 13.

In case the buckle is to be permanenti)v attached to a strap or other article by sewing down at each end one or both of its intermediate bars, upon a bar-tacking machine for example which usually applies sixteen stitches on each operation, the notches in the outer edge of the bar or bars serve to receive and confine the threads. thereby both preventing the shifting of the buckle and affording protection for the threads.

The buckle 1()a shown in Fig. 7 differs from the buckle 10 only in having an additional bar and slot, the strap end 12L beingr anchored therein by passing it first forward through one and back through the other of its two inte1mediate`-slots.

In Fig. 8 the anchorage shown in Figs. 6 and 7 is modified slightly by making a double fold at the end of the strap and securing the end 17, produced by the extra fold, back to the strap by the line of stitchesv 15.

The buckle is neat in appearance, is easily manipulated, and is very efiicient, while the new strap anchorage provides a means not only for detachably fixing the end of a strap to the buckle but for covering the back of the two intermediate bars so that they will not come in contact with a garment or the flesh of the wearer.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A slide buckle consisting of a plate pierced to form four transverse bars and three intermediate slots, the said bars lying in a single plane and the two outer bars having on their inner sides integral lips bent up from the inner side of the plate to a plane substantially perpendicular to the plane of the lplate and provided with blunt rounded teet 2. A slide buckle which comprises a plate pierced to provide a plurality of transverse bars and intermediate slots and having an intermediate bar notched in its outer edge at each of its ends, said notches serving to receive and confine the threads when the buckle is attached to an article by sewing.

3. A slide buckle which comprises a plate pierced to provide four transverse bars and three intermediate slots, the two outer bars having lips bent up therefrom on their inner sides, and one at least of the intermediate bars having a notch in its outer side at each end thereof serving to receive and confine the threads therein when the buckle is attached to an article by sewing.

FRED HIRSH. 

